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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1975-01-15

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1975-01-15, page 01

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LIBRARY, OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1982 VELM* AVE. ..
C0L3« 6, 43E11 EXCH
VOL. 54 NO. 3
JANUARY 15, I97G - SHEVAT 13
PARIS (WNS) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin has indicated that the only way Israel would ever consider talking with the Palestine Liberation Organization is if the PLO Renounced its aim of destroying the State of
' Israel. In an interview with the French weekly, Nouvel Observateur, Rabin answering a "hypothetical" question, said Israel would expect deeds not words from the PLO. He said one such deed would be for the PLO to completely renounce its "Palestinian Covenant" which calls for the replacement of the State . of Israel by a "secular, democratic state" of Arabs and Jews. "Afterward we shall draw the consequences and niaketbenecessary conclusions," Rabin said.
LONDON (WNS) — British Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits has rejected charges by Soviet emigre groups in Israel that he was taken in by Soviet
. propaganda during his nine-day visit to the USSR. The Chief Rabbi's office issued a statement defending the Rabbi noting that he is "known as a person of acute and perceptive judgment and is the last person" who could be accused of being duped. The statement also rioted that many of the remarks attributed to
"- Jakobovits "are factually incorrect or distorted." The Israeli, reaction was due in part to Jakobovits' report thathis trip^gaye liim.c&use to hope that the lot of Soviet Jews would be improved. He told an overflow meeting, at St. John's: Wood Synagogue that the
• campaign for Sbyiet Jewry should have two slogans, "Let my people go" for the half million Soviet Jews who want to go to Israel and "let my people live" for the remaining two million Jews.
VIENNA (WNS) -Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal has announced that he was shifting his efforts to track* down wanted Nazi war criminals 40' the United State's
, and other countries and away fromAustria because Nazis are almost invariably acquitted by Austrian courts. He said he was cooperating Aith the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of Justice tp uncover evidence on at least 70 former residents pf Eastern Europe now living in the U.S. who are wanted for/ war crimes in a number of countries./ NEW YORK <WNS) .to, RabbiDavid Polish,
: president of the Chicago Zionist Federation, has been named chairman of a commission on Zionist ideology set up by the American Zionist Federation. AZF president, Faye Schenk, said the commission which will include 31 Zionist scholars and leaders will meet several times ayear to consider such questions as the contemporary character of Zionism, how to distinguish between Zionism and pro-Israel activity and whether, the Zionist philosophy needs updating and revision.
Warns Foreign Powers, Specifically Israel And Syria, To Stay Out Of Lebanon
WASHINGTON (JTA) - The United States government warned Jan. 8 against intervention- by any foreign power in the Lebanese situation and specifically mentioned Syria ahd . Israel in that connection. State Department spokesman Robert Funseth said the warning was in response to statements by the Syria Foreign Minister Abdel' Halim Khaddam that Syria would annex Lebanon if that country was partitioned and" by Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres that Israel would not stand idly by if Syria' intervened in the Lebanese crisis. "'The U.S. has repeatedly expressed its support for the territorial integrity of Lebanon,"- Funseth said, referring to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's letter to that effect to the Prime Minister of Lebanon last Nov. 5. Funse,th in a, prepared statement fead to'reporters,* said:' "During the course of .the difficulties in Lebanon, we have made clear that the U.S. opposed any outside interference in Lebanon's affairs. This position' was made known to the governments in the area. Our view has not changed. No country should intervene in Lebanon. We are opposed to any outside intervention in Lebanon by any. country, including Syria and Israel." Funseth noted that "My response is to the statements of both the Israeli and Syrian officials," meaning Peres
and Khaddam. Asked if there was any foreign intervention now in Lebanon, Funseth referred the questioner to the Lebanese authorities.
TEL AVIV (JTA) - Defense Minister Shimon Peres warned Jan. 8 that Israel would react if Syria
intervened in any form in the current fighting between Moslems and Christians in Lebanon. He made the comment to the newspaper Maariv in connection with.a reported statement' by the Syrian Foreign Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam, that Syria would annex Lebanon
should that country stand in danger of becoming divided. Peres said any Syrian intervention would be tantamount to an invasion of Lebanon with all of its consequences and that Israel would not remain indifferent . but would consider' its
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Await Security Council Mideast Debate
(Editor's Note: As the Chronicle prepared to go to press early in the week, the results ol Ihe U.N. Security Council debate were not yet known. The following analysis of possible consequences is presented at this time. Next week's issue will consider the results of the debate in detail.
By David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Jerusalem last week awaited with trepidation the Security Council debate on the Middle East,'on Jan. 12. The main fear among top policy-makers was that the Arab-initiated debate could result in ' even greater isolation of Israel, and 3ven in a rift'opening between Israel and the United States. Foriegn Minister Yigal Allon was instructed by the Cabinet to ascertain as precisely as possible what can be expected from the U.S. as the Security Council drama unfolds. Paradoxically, the worst fear is that the Arabs will not be extremist, but moderate. Their moderation could tempt the U.S. into .supporting a new Council resolution broadly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause — a
resolution which would drive a wedge between Jerusalem and Washington. Gone are the days when the Arabs could be counted on to • prejudice, with bombast and extremist rhetoric, their own best interests. Now, under Soviet coaxing, the Arabs — even the Syrians — might well soften their hard-line demands, and propose a . moderate formulation on the Palestinian question which Washington would, be hard put to veto.
They might well-make use of formulations actually
used by the U.S. itself in the past, such as the "interests of the Palestinian people" referred to in the joint communique issued June 1973 by President Nixon and Soviet Communist Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and repeated at the Vladivostok summit between Brezhnev and President Ford last year. A resolution in this vein would mean, m the present context, Israeli policymakers say, a call to reconvene Geneva with the PLO participating.
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Noted Rabbi Will Speak At Open Public Meeting
Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, one of the outstanding speakers and religious thinkers in the American Jewish community, will address an open public meeting this evening —Thursday, Jan. 15 - — at 8 p.m. at Agudas Achim Synagogue. Rabbi Tanenbaum's topic will be "Vatican II — Ten Years
Lessons Of 1975 — Challenges In 1976
. By Murray Zuckoff (Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
NEW YORK (JTA) - For Israel and the Jewish people 1975 could not have ended too soon. It,-was a year of diplomatic defeats for Israel and steam-roller victories for the Arab-Communist- T^ird World bloc: It was a year of economic crisis and political dissension in Israel which threatened to split the Alignment and the coalition government. It was a year when many friends of the Jewish State — including the United States, France, Sweden, Mexico, Chile and Brazil — left Israel in the lurch and capitulated to Arab, Communist and Third World pressure. It was also a year of world wide economic crisis in which many Jewish communities were caught in an- economic < crunch; in which the pgHt" of Soviet
Jewry increased both in terms of a precipitous decline in emigration and in mounting harassment and arrests of Jews seeking to emigrate; and in which detente veered off course and threatened to collapse altogether over the issue of Angola; The only bright moments for Israel and the Jewish world was the second interim Sinai accord between Israel and Egypt and the outpouring of international solidarity be t w e e n Jewish communities and Israel over the issue of Zionism. .Yet, even these positive developments were darkened by anxiety and fear regarding their long- range consequences. The. ramifications of all these developments will be manifested in lull scope in 1976 and confront Israel and world Jewry 'with 'soflie of'
-the most crucial challenges and fateful decisions since the. Jewish State came into existence. In 1975 nothing seemed to go right for Israel. The deep-going! economic crisis, reminiscent of the 1960's, provoked a series of major strikes. The. government was under mounting pressure froni doves within and outside the government to change its attitude toward the Palestinian issue. The illegal settlement move in Sebastia by the Gush Emunim and the compromise the government reached with the settlers created a furor in the Labor Party ahd caused Premier Yitzhak Rabin to threaten to resign. The victory of a Communist Mayor in the Nazareth election brought a series of charges that the . government; had neglected the, problems < of; Israeji Arabs and countercharges
that the Communists were preparing a base in that city for terrorist activities. Throughout all this, terrorist bombs ripped through downtown Jerusalem in July, October and November killing a total of 21 people and injuring 46, and terrorist activities in Tel Aviv and along the border were responsible for the death of some 24 Israelis and terrorists.
The year 1975 was also filled with a series of ironies and perversities for Israel and the Jewish world, The adoption by the General Assembly in November of a resolution equating Zionism with racism was a perversity because it was the culmination of a series of similar resolutions adopted in Mexico City at the International Women's Year Conference, in Lima, Peru at a meeting of ministers) of
non-aligned states, in Kampala, Uganda at a meeting of the Organization of African Unity, which were convened to deal with the socially progressive issues involving the elimination of
• apartheid, colonialism and
, imperialism. It was ironic that the groundswell of Voices in Israel calling for talks with any Palestinian group that renounced terrorism and recognized Israel's sovereignty was
. attributed in large measure to American pressure for accommodation with the Palestine Liberation/ Organization rather than an ongoing demand over the years by progressive and radical Israeli and Jewish
' political leaders and intellectuals. . It was perverse that immediately
.after Israel signed the interim accord with Egypt in
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Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum
Later," and will be an analysis of Christian-Jewish relations'ih the world today: The meeting will be sponsored by the Committee on Christian-Jewish Concerns of the Community Relations Committee, with the cooperation of the Columbus Board of Rabbis, the Amei-ican Jewish Committee . and Agudas Achim .Synagogue. Robert Shamansky, Chairman of the Committee oh Christian- Jewish Concerns, will chair the meeting.^
"After the. Community Relations Committee of the Columbus- Jewish Federation and the Columbus Board of Rabbis announced Rabbi Tanenbaum would be in Columbus on Jan. 15 to
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LIBRARY, OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1982 VELM* AVE. ..
C0L3« 6, 43E11 EXCH
VOL. 54 NO. 3
JANUARY 15, I97G - SHEVAT 13
PARIS (WNS) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin has indicated that the only way Israel would ever consider talking with the Palestine Liberation Organization is if the PLO Renounced its aim of destroying the State of
' Israel. In an interview with the French weekly, Nouvel Observateur, Rabin answering a "hypothetical" question, said Israel would expect deeds not words from the PLO. He said one such deed would be for the PLO to completely renounce its "Palestinian Covenant" which calls for the replacement of the State . of Israel by a "secular, democratic state" of Arabs and Jews. "Afterward we shall draw the consequences and niaketbenecessary conclusions," Rabin said.
LONDON (WNS) — British Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits has rejected charges by Soviet emigre groups in Israel that he was taken in by Soviet
. propaganda during his nine-day visit to the USSR. The Chief Rabbi's office issued a statement defending the Rabbi noting that he is "known as a person of acute and perceptive judgment and is the last person" who could be accused of being duped. The statement also rioted that many of the remarks attributed to
"- Jakobovits "are factually incorrect or distorted." The Israeli, reaction was due in part to Jakobovits' report thathis trip^gaye liim.c&use to hope that the lot of Soviet Jews would be improved. He told an overflow meeting, at St. John's: Wood Synagogue that the
• campaign for Sbyiet Jewry should have two slogans, "Let my people go" for the half million Soviet Jews who want to go to Israel and "let my people live" for the remaining two million Jews.
VIENNA (WNS) -Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal has announced that he was shifting his efforts to track* down wanted Nazi war criminals 40' the United State's
, and other countries and away fromAustria because Nazis are almost invariably acquitted by Austrian courts. He said he was cooperating Aith the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of Justice tp uncover evidence on at least 70 former residents pf Eastern Europe now living in the U.S. who are wanted for/ war crimes in a number of countries./ NEW YORK